Nelson Mandela is flanked by Deputy presidents Thabo Mbeki, left, and FW de Klerk following their inauguration in Pretoria, South Africa, on May 9, 1994. Photograph: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Nelson Mandela addresses the United Nations General Assembly, Dec. 3, 1991. Photograph: Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

A general view of Nelson Mandela's bedroom and the blanket, that was given to Mandela in Qunu when he became a man, as he is from Royal family line, displayed in the Mandela House, Soweto, Johannesburg. EPA/KIM LUDBROOK

Nelson Mandela, with wife Winnie, giving the famous clench-fist saltue of the African National Congress. PA Wire